An Ancient Muse is the seventh full-length studio album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was released on November 20, 2006 internationally, and November 21, 2006 in the United States and Canada. It was her first studio album after a 9-year gap. It has now sold more than one million copies worldwide. Work on An Ancient Muse started in 2005. According to reports on McKennitt's Quinlan Road website, most of the inspiration for the tracks of the album came from the music of Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and the Far East. Most of the tracks, with the exception of three revealed at the mid-September concerts in the Alhambra of Granada in Spain, were completely unknown until the release. An Ancient Muse is the seventh full-length studio album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was released on November 20, 2006 internationally, and November 21, 2006 in the United States and Canada. It was her first studio album after a 9-year gap. It has now sold more than one million copies worldwide. Work on An Ancient Muse started in 2005. According to reports on McKennitt's Quinlan Road website, most of the inspiration for the tracks of the album came from the music of Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and the Far East. Most of the tracks, with the exception of three revealed at the mid-September concerts in the Alhambra of Granada in Spain, were completely unknown until the release. false 2025-11-08 04:19:17 An Ancient Muse 2006 2006-01-01 2006-01-01 54 Celtic Celtic New Age Folk New Age 119173 2159306 49e8d64b-2ce8-4f28-b0a9-4da4d92917f9 c1e5344e-1bff-4727-9417-a4f55e41b5ff 74547f14-8769-3be8-83db-5aca2c6886d5 /media/data/media5/Music/Loreena McKennitt/An Ancient Muse/folder.jpg Loreena McKennitt Loreena McKennitt 1 1 Incantation 02:35 1 2 The Gates of Istanbul 06:59 1 3 Caravanserai 07:35 1 4 The English Ladye and the Knight 06:48 1 5 Kecharitomene 06:34 1 6 Penelope's Song 04:21 1 7 Sacred Shabbat 04:00 1 8 Beneath a Phrygian Sky 09:29 1 9 Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit) 06:00 Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.